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Fermented Cucumber Pickles

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Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 8
Course: Side Dish
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 pint-and-a-half wide-mouth canning jar with tight-fitting lid
  • 2 tbsp Frontier Co-op® Sel Gris
  • 3 clove fresh garlic, peeled and bruised
  • 2 Frontier Co-op® Whole Bay Leaves
  • 8 Frontier Co-op® Black Peppercorns Whole
  • 7 pickling cucumbers ends removed, cut lengthwise into quarters no more than 5 inches long

Method
 

  1. In canning jar, add Sel Gris salt and 4 ounces water, and agitate until dissolved.
  2. Add garlic and spices to jar.
  3. Add as many cucumber spears as possible to jar, packing them in tightly, ensuring that they are as far down in jar as possible, snug and not bobbing around.
  4. Add water until cucumbers are covered.
  5. Close lid just until you meet resistance. Leave at room temperature.
  6. Once a day for first 2 to 3 days, open lid just enough to break seal, then close it again.
  7. The pickles are ready after 4 days. Eat or refrigerate. Consider drinking the brine too!